Gene Johnson, Associated Press Published 5:49 a.m. ET July 28, 2020 | Updated 6:13 a.m. ET July 28, 2020CLOSE Portland police declared the latest clashes a "riot" but protesters say it's been largely peaceful. USA TODAYSEATTLE — Days after a legal effort by the state of Oregon failed, protesters sued the Trump administration Monday to rein…
The de-facto leader of Seattle's autonomous protest zone said Wednesday “a lot” of protesters have already left the area following a call days earlier from the mayor for protesters to clear out. The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP, in a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday said that “very few” people remain in the protest…
The restaurant caught fire Saturday after protestors broke windows at the restaurant and threw fireworks inside. Cortez Stafford, a spokesman for Atlanta fire, said the blaze grew because it wasn’t safe to get to the area near the restaurant when the fire began. He estimated there were 1,000 protestors near the Wendy’s.“We’re now making our…
Protestors gathered in Birmingham went to work to remove a statue erected in a public park with ties to the confederacy.According to AL.com, the group gathered at Linn Park following a rally in memory of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died on Memorial Day shortly after his arrest by officers from the Minneapolis…
Protestors in Georgia are calling for the removal of the district attorneys who they claim mishandled the case of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man who was killed while jogging near Brunswick, Ga., in February. Hundreds of protesters gathered at Glynn County Police Department building in Brunswick wearing face masks and demanding…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…